It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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